Love makes you high!

Love is all encompassing, love is blind, love makes you high… turns out there’s some scientific facts behind some of these expressions!

Taken from The Huffington postHave you ever been crazy in love? Blind in love? Or just downright lovesick? Scientists will tell you that those idioms actually have a basis in fact.

Intense, passionate feelings of love really can mess with your mind and body–from affecting the way you talk to the way you walk. Keep reading for some surprising love facts that may snap you back to reality…

“When you have just become involved in a romantic relationship you’ll probably find it harder to focus on other things because you spend a large part of your cognitive resources on thinking of your beloved,” Dr. Henk van Steenbergen, assistant professor at Leiden University in The Netherlands, said in a written statement released by the university.

“You can feel intense elation when you’re in love. You can feel intense elation when you’re high on cocaine,” Dr. Lucy Brown, a professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, told CNN.

3. Love can make you less vulnerable to pain. Forget the Vicodin, maybe all you need is romance.

“It turns out that some of the areas of the brain activated by feelings of intense love are the same areas that drugs use to reduce pain,” Dr. Arthur Aron, a psychology professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, said in a written statement released by Stanford University.

In fact, just holding hands with the person you love may alleviate pain.

4. Love makes you walk slower. For the guys, that is. Researchers have found that men adjust their walking speed to match their romantic partner’s pace — an odd phenomenon not seen when guys walk with someone they consider just a friend.

5. It changes your heartbeat to match that special someone’s. Studies suggest that when you’re in love, your heart beats as fast as your partner’s so they’re at the same rate. How romantic.

6. It makes you go up an octave. Women tend to speak in a higher-pitched voice to men they find attractive. Research also suggests that people in love may sometimes try to mimic or match the pitch of their romantic partner’s voice as a way to communicate affection and a sense of being on the same page.

7. It makes you blind. Some studies show that people in a committed relationship who have been actively thinking about their partner actually avert their eyes from attractive members of the opposite sex unknowingly — it’s called an act ofunconscious attentional bias.

8. It turns you into a daredevil. We’ve all heard tales of the knight in shining armor risking it all for his beloved. Studies of risk-taking behavior in men and women show that men are more willing to take unnecessary risks for a romantic partner.